Script of a video-letter to Thomas Hoving, former director at the MET and author of the unforgivable Art for Dummies.
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The subject is distinguished from the non-subject by the minimum of freedom to be itself, i.e. it has the freedom to defend its self in view of real unfreedom. A human being cannot be reduced to its status as mere object. It knows, as Carl Schmitt says, "not only birth," the facticity of its having been cast, "but also the possibility of a rebirth," which, as Hölderlin says in The Course of Life, is "the freedom to set out whither he will". There is therefore only one obligation for the human subject: to be free in view of its freedom.
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The common octopus, Octopus Vulgaris, can often be seen hung out to dry in the harbour of Antiparos, Greece. Low season, high tide - this is where the Swedes go for vacation, the common Swede. These two kinds of vulgaris are brought together in Greek cuisine; on the small island of Antiparos octopus is served at every tavern. We will stay here for a week, enough time to try all the vegetarian dishes on the menus twice and hopefully also enough time to find a living octopus.
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On Sept. 11 2002 a group of 80 pigeons, posing as white doves evoking peace, were released in the New York City area. It was a tribute that went quickly awry as a fundamental misunderstanding became apparent. These pigeons from a poultry market, originally destined for soup, were confused with homing pigeons- resilient birds that after release are able to navigate to homes up to 600 miles away.
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A local Zambian dance performance with African masks in variations of black and white. The children sob and roar. Their expressions of fear and their screams in a foreign language sink deep down inside me. Why the masks seem to terrify them so, I cannot understand. It is a game, but still and all, it isn't. The black children I usually play with glance at us.
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In New York's Latin quarters, "El Barrio", in east Harlem and in the Bronx, music is developed under the best possible conditions. Here the Afro-Cuban rhythms meet American jazz harmonies. It's no accident that New York is an important hub of new innovative music. To call oneself a drummer in this environment without any knowledge of clave would be a joke.
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17.09.2000. The Red Light District in Amsterdam is 700 years old and at a distance looks rather charming, with all the red lamps, cobblestones and picturesque bridges. Unaccustomed as I am to the area, I study the surroundings and watch how others act and move. Several people window-shop.
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One thing leads to another - so can the world be related. Causal connections above and beyond the easily predictable make me curious and therefore the chain of effects motif occupies an important place in my work, especially as a narrative means.
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I am a thoroughly urban person, having grown up in Tallinn, and later living in Riga, St Petersburg and New York. Nevertheless, on St John's Day in 1996 I found myself on the balcony in Kütiorg, reading Nietszche's 'Ecce Homo', realizing that cities as such has nothing more to offer me.
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If you look at a map of Petersburg, you will immediately see that Narvskaya Zastava is an isolated zone, surrounded by a ring of factories, railroad tracks and shipyards. Before the revolution, it was part of the city's proletarian outskirts, an historical hotbed of dissent. The historical decision to begin the October Revolution was made here.
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